Highlights

SECTION 4Space Travel and the Future of Humanity

As an era of space travel for all draws closer, this section offers artists’ visions of the relationships people will have with the universe, and how our lives will change in the future. There will also be displays on the history of the US and Soviet space programs, plus the latest from the frontline of modern space development including JAXA’s International Space Station (ISS)/Kibo Educational Payload Observation Pilot Mission, Mars Ice House, and Project by Team Hakuto.

Reproductions of Sketches by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, “Father of Space Exploration”

Presenting for the first time in Japan the inspired sketches of scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer of rocketry and cosmonautics as well as a sci-fi author, whose work contributed to the success of Russia’s space program.

Maquette, also on display in Japan for the first time, of a New York architectural group’s potential habitat that won first prize in a NASA’s contest to design housing for Mars, ahead of its plan to have four astronauts live on and explore the planet for a year in the 2030s. Could this be the future of human habitation?